Following arrests by the Royal Wootton Bassett Community Policing Team, two men have been charged with theft
Officers arrested two people on June 11 after receiving reports of a scrap metal theft in Broad Town. As part of our investigation, a vehicle containing scrap metal was seized, and the pair was also linked to a separate theft of scrap metal in Chippenham on May 10. Florin Toma, 42, […]
A Folkestone man has been sentenced to prison after his drugs network used the encrypted Encrochat phone system to organise deals in east Kent.
Detectives from the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate discovered Jordan Nicholl and his brother Ryan Nicholl were supplying drugs on a large scale between March and June 2020 using information obtained from the criminal phone system. Both men were detained during pre-planned warrants at their respective homes, and Jordan Nicholl was sentenced to […]
As part of a 19-month investigation into fraudulently signed building cladding safety forms, a man has been charged with fraud
Thomas Michael Clarke, 33, of Knowsley Lane in Prescot, has been charged with fraudulent representation. Following the Grenfell Tower fire, EWS1 forms were introduced to allow residents to have their building’s cladding assessed for potential fire risk. The forms require an appropriate professional to confirm the checks have been completed, but residents of high-rise […]
A man who admitted to carrying a knuckleduster for protection and saying he would be “dead” if it was taken from him was given a 12-month community order
Keelan Hobbs, of Barton Road in Newport, appeared in the Isle of Wight Magistrates Court on Tuesday, charged with possession of an offensive weapon (knuckleduster), to which he pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing. The prosecutor, Ann Smout, told the court that Hobbs was seen with a knuckleduster on June 4th at Howard House […]
The man who murdered Jennifer and Stephen Chapple was sentenced to at least 38 years in prison today (Tuesday, 21 June)
Collin Reeves, 35, was found guilty last week at Bristol Crown Court of murdering his next-door neighbours in Norton Fitzwarren in November last year. He was sentenced to life in prison today in the same court. Reeves stabbed Jennifer, 33, and Stephen, 36, multiple times with a ceremonial military dagger. Their kids were sleeping […]
A Metropolitan Police officer who continued chasing a violent suspect – even after she was stabbed has been nominated for a bravery award
PC Stephanie Clarke and PC Leigh Walker were running a plain-clothes operation in Westminster on 4 October 2020 when they saw two teenage boys running out of a grocery store with the storekeepers screaming after them. PC Walker got into a fight with one of the boys after suspecting them of attempting to […]
A man from Blackburn has been jailed after attempting to groom girls he thought were 13 and 14 years old and asking them to send him explicit images of themselves.
A man from Blackburn was sentenced after attempting to groom girls he thought were 13 and 14 years old and asking them to send him explicit images of themselves. Despite knowing the girls’ ages, Suleman Mahmood, 28, continued to send them sexually explicit messages. Mahmood had been communicating with decoys from the Online Child Abuse […]
A burglar who attacked a disabled man with a golf club in his Blackpool home before stealing his wallet was sentenced to 11 years in prison
At 7.46 p.m. on March 23rd, police were called to an upstairs property on Corporation Street due to reports of a man entering through an open upstairs window. He was challenged by the occupants once inside the property and left. He returned minutes later, threatening the victim and his wife and demanding money. In […]
A serving Metropolitan Police officer has admitted to controlling and coercive behaviour
PC Mathew Cooper, assigned to the Central West Command Unit, pleaded guilty to one count of controlling and coercive behaviour without violence on Monday, 20 June, at Aldersgate House.A second count of controlling and coercive behaviour involving violence will be filed.He is due to be sentenced at Snaresbrook Crown Court on Wednesday, August 31, PC Cooper, […]
The parents of a 12-year-old boy have been granted permission to appeal a court ruling declaring him dead
A High Court judge ruled last week that doctors could legally stop treating Archie Battersbee, but lawyers for the family argued in court on Monday that a higher burden of proof should have been used.They also questioned whether Mrs Justice Arbuthnot considered the youngster’s religion before making her decision on June 13.Archie has been in […]
A serial rapist from Scotland has been discovered dead in an Edinburgh prison just days after being sentenced
Stephen Charters, a former worship leader, was sentenced to five years in prison. Charters committed a series of rapes and sexual assaults on children as young as four. An investigation has been launched after his body was discovered in the Hermiston Hall at Edinburgh’s Saughton prison. The 57-year-old former worship leader attacked a teenage […]
Arrests in Margate result in firearms charges
Following police work in Margate, two men have been charged with a firearms offence. Officers noticed suspicious activity in Milton Avenue on the evening of Saturday, June 18, 2022. As part of the investigation, three men were arrested, and a firearm and a quantity of suspected cocaine […]
